Catholic Homeschooling

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Hello all. I am a Protestant, planning to enter the Church on Easter. We have five children and have always homeschooled. I was just wondering, is anyone familiar with any Catholic homeschool providers? Typically our faith is well integrated into our homeschool, and I’d like to continue that even as we become Catholic. Thanks!
 
Are they any Catholic homeschool groups/conferences in your area? There are a bunch of great Catholic homeschool blogs and websites out there, too.
Catholic Cuisine
4Real Forums
Materamabilis
Wildflowers and Marbles
 
I’m a teacher at a Catholic school and I love the texts put out by Memoria Press. I know they are popular with Catholic homeschooling families.

Welcome home! I joined the church last year and I would have loved to enter with my whole family. What a joy!
 
Hello and welcome to the Catholic Church! 👋

I’m a long time homeschooler. There are many Catholic homeschool materials with a variety of approaches.

Catholic Heritage chcweb.com/catalog/ They have some of my favorite materials for younger children with a gentle, sort of Montessorri style.

Classical Approach: (these may offer online classes, enrollment with lesson plans or you can just purchase the books)
Mother of Divine Grace, motherofdivinegrace.org/
Kolbe Academy, kolbe.org/
queenofheavenacademy.org/

Traditional school-at-home correspondence school that also sells their Catholic school books.
Seton setonhome.org/

Bookstores:
By Way of the Family bywayofthefamily.com/closed.asp Hmm, this link says the store is temporarily closed. :hmmm:

Catholic Textbook Project: catholictextbookproject.com/

And there’s lots, lots more.

What are your children’s ages and your general philosophy/approach to homeschooling?
 
Check out Aquinas Academy in Bear, Delaware.

Besides their day school, they have a home school support program with online courses (plus some more courses to come).

While on their webpage, check out their alumni page. It’s quite a faithful list.

aquinasacademy.net/
 
Jennifer132 said:
Hello all. I am a Protestant, planning to enter the Church on Easter. We have five children and have always homeschooled. I was just wondering, is anyone familiar with any Catholic homeschool providers? Typically our faith is well integrated into our homeschool, and I’d like to continue that even as we become Catholic. Thanks!
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We use Seton and love it. It’s very old school and orthodox. We have homeschooled for a long while and started using Seton three years ago. We won’t go back to anything else.

But be on notice. Seton is very structured you have to do it every day to stick to the calandar and lesson plans ( which tend to mirror the church liturgical calandar) if you start around Labor Day. So you learn about liturgical seasons and saints around thier feast days.

Many people don’t homeschool with such structure. And there are excellent Catholic programs for that as well. Many have been listed. Or you can mix and match with other curriculum. It really depends on what type of homeschooling you do and what works best for your family. I need the structure and lessons plans of Seton. Others dislike that.
 
gardenswithkids said:
Hello and welcome to the Catholic Church! 👋

I’m a long time homeschooler. There are many Catholic homeschool materials with a variety of approaches.

Catholic Heritage chcweb.com/catalog/ They have some of my favorite materials for younger children with a gentle, sort of Montessorri style.

Classical Approach: (these may offer online classes, enrollment with lesson plans or you can just purchase the books)
Mother of Divine Grace, motherofdivinegrace.org/
Kolbe Academy, kolbe.org/
queenofheavenacademy.org/

Traditional school-at-home correspondence school that also sells their Catholic school books.
Seton setonhome.org/

Bookstores:
By Way of the Family bywayofthefamily.com/closed.asp Hmm, this link says the store is temporarily closed. :hmmm:

Catholic Textbook Project: catholictextbookproject.com/

And there’s lots, lots more.

What are your children’s ages and your general philosophy/approach to homeschooling?
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My school aged children are going into sixth and seventh grades once we finish what we are doing now. Typically we do literature based history programs. We do like a unit study approach, where the subjects are integrated, as long as it doesn’t take too much teacher intensive work. We really haven’t done any online or correspondence style schooling…not sure if I am open to that or not. My two littler girls will also start kindergarten soon. 🙂
 
I am interested as well. DS is 3 and I plan to homeschool the kids. I am torn on whether to start Pre-K at 3 or 4, or start kindy at 5.

I have been interested in the following (both classical)
angelicum.net/ (starts as early as PK3)
motherofdivinegrace.org/ (Starts at K)

And Seton (scholastic) which starts at pre-K.

I have heard of a lot of people who are happy with Seton, but it seems a little more structured than I want?

Has anyone used angelicum? I can’t find as many reviews on it.
 
Youtube: channel: “Superbook”
(an animated series of the whole Bible)
(Superbook also has a website and is available for download as an app on any phone or tablet)
(all ages)
The app has colouring pages, quizzes, games etc on the Bible stories,

Youtube channel: Rod the Ney, (animated Bible scenes)
(all ages)

dynamic catholic.com
Go to decision point on that website for 70 free online videos about the Sacrament of Confirmation (and catholicism) For age 11 and 12

Nb:
Awesome book your children would enjoy
“Action Bible” series, it’s 5 comic books that tell the whole story of the Bible, drawn by an artist that helped draw comics with Batman, and Captain America. (also on Kindle download),
(age 9 +)

Kingstone Comics (app) (website) (comic books)
Different series of comic books telling different Bible stories, available for ebook download on the app for 2 usd per book, (drawn by the artist who worked with Dc comics and Marvel, and helped draw some of the Batman and Captain America comics)
(age 9+)

Something I would really really recommend is any children’s books telling the lives of different saints in an interesting way,

From Veritas.ie “Grow in Love” (series,) catholic education series for teachers to use, approved by the Vatican, a different book for each grade level for age 5 to 12,
With online resources too,
 
And of course you can always pick and choose and use many different programs at the same time. Basically creating your own curriculum that fits the child.
 
misspriss said:
I am interested as well. DS is 3 and I plan to homeschool the kids. I am torn on whether to start Pre-K at 3 or 4, or start kindy at 5.

I have been interested in the following (both classical)
angelicum.net/ (starts as early as PK3)
motherofdivinegrace.org/ (Starts at K)

And Seton (scholastic) which starts at pre-K.

I have heard of a lot of people who are happy with Seton, but it seems a little more structured than I want?

Has anyone used angelicum? I can’t find as many reviews on it.
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I actually used Angelicum. I was in the High school program. The Great Books Program to be precise, and I can say that it is phenomenal. Plus, you can get college credit in the Program. Of course, you are probably more interested in the Socratic classes (the non-high school program). My sisters have participated in it, and I’ve listened to quite a few of them. Definitely worth looking into. It gets the kids thinking while reading texts from the Great Books. If you have any specific questions feel free to ask.
 
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